Expertise
1. Ingredient formulation and performance assessments
Product ingredient formulation and assessment to provide the targetted performance and properties, aligned with industry requirements and regulation, and within cost constraints.
Ingredient formulation
Chemical-physical understanding of the full range of formulation
ingredients and compositions for laundry and dish: surfactants,
builders, sequestrants, bleaches, optical whiteners (fluorescers,
shading), enzymes, polymers (anti-redep, ant-dye transfer, soil
release), softeners, hard surface care (anti-tarnish, drying),
anti-foam, anti-microbials, physical property modulators
(structurants, dissolution aids, colourants). Raw material
specifications, methods and analyses, sustainability testing,
processing requirements and formulation costs.
Performance assessments
Full knowledge of requirements for market representative testing
of laundry and dish performance, technical and subjective,
cleaning, care, hygiene and sensorial: Commercially available and handmade monitors, new consumer
monitor and DEMO development, machines, programme settings,
loads, wash conditions, single and multi-wash, drying.
Performance measurements and analyses, Industry standards.
Experimental design and statistics.
Subjective testing by trained and naive panelling, consumer (in
field) testing, design, influences by geographic or cultural
differences.
2. Management
Project management
Project leadership support for detergent or ingredient product
launches, in a multifunctional global context. Experience with
objective & scope definition, stakeholder management,
planning, gate processes & checklists, Quality & Risk
Management and team building. Focus on delivery, alignment and
teamwork. Managing interfaces between different functions
internal (R&D, Supply Chain, Processing - Patents -
Regulatory - Marketing - Financial) and external (FMCG –
Supplier – Industry – Institutes) on different levels.
Portfolio management
Product portfolio assessments to support simplification,
savings or quality analyses.
Project portfolio assessment to support business strategy
alignment.
Analyses to be based on customer-aligned parameters such as
margins, sales, volumes, complexity, investments, delivery,
quality or consumer-brand performance positions.
3. Other business support
Technical sales support and Market - Competitor - Patent
analyses
Value proposition development and convincing technical sales
support packages, including claim, new consumer monitor or DEMO
development.
Analyses of market sizes and segmentations, consumer trends and
Insights.
Competitor product analyses including patent, costs and
compositions, bench marking studies and gap analyses.
Patent analyses and filing support.
People and Quality support
Support for people skill and competency development, team
structure including roles and responsibilities, team building,
spirit and efficiency programmes.
Line - HR support for resource recruitment and selection.
R&D center set up including hardware and analytical-software
support.
Supply Chain - Quality, measures and monitoring programmes.